%0 Journal Article
%T Changing trends in suicide mortality and firearm involvement among Black young adults in the United States, 1999-2019
%J Archives of suicide research
%D 2022
%A Kaplan, Mark S.
%A C Mueller-Williams, Amelia
%A Goldman-Mellor, Sidra
%A Sakai-Bizmark, Rie
%V ePub
%N ePub
%P ePub-ePub
%X The suicide rate among adolescents and young adults in the United States increased 57% between 2007 and 2018, from 6.8 to 10.7 deaths per 100 000 individuals. Recent research characterized as alarming the increases in overall suicide rates among young Black and other racial/ethnic minority populations. To assess the temporal trends in overall suicide and firearm suicide mortality rates among non-Hispanic Black young adults, we conducted a sex-specific Joinpoint regression analysis to identify changing trends in these rates between 1999 and 2019. Data were obtained from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System. <br><br>RESULTS showed an 84.5% increase in the firearm suicide rate among young Black men and a 76.9% increase among young Black women between 2013 and 2019. Additional research is needed to investigate potential population-level exposures during or before 2013 that may have influenced suicide and firearm suicide risk.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
%G en
%I Informa - Taylor and Francis Group
%@ 1381-1118
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2022.2098889